Nocturne

“She walks in beauty, like the night” — Lord Byron

“She was a Phantom of delight,
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair.”
— William Wordsworth

“For the moon never beams
without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee”
— Edgar Allan Poe

#SaturdayNightFever

The Complete Chopin Nocturnes
Source: https://youtu.be/IVpuTD-2SEo

Famous Last Words

(((They))) told her that voting for open borders was a good thing, and that being racist was the worst thing in the world, and she probably fell for it all — hook, line, and sinker.

When those of us on the Right said “No” to immigration she would have accused us of being racist and xenophobic. She would have told us that society is no longer like that. She would have said, “We’re diverse now, and we’ve progressed.” … famous last words

Last Stand

I sincerely hope that this is not what the last stand of France will look like in the future.

The Disease of Astonishment
(1 of 2)

In his book Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689), Cotton Mather describes his "oracular observations" and how "stupendous witchcraft" had affected the children of Boston mason John Goodwin.

Mather illustrates how the Goodwins' eldest child had been tempted by the devil, and had stolen linen from the washerwoman Goody Glover.

Glover, of Irish Catholic descent was characterized as a disagreeable old woman and described by her husband as a witch; this may have been why she was accused of casting spells on the Goodwin children.

The Disease of Astonishment
(2 of 2)

After the event, four out of six Goodwin children began to have strange fits, or what some people referred to as "the disease of astonishment". The manifestations attributed to the disease quickly became associated with witchcraft.

Symptoms included neck and back pains, tongues being drawn from their throats, and loud random outcries; other symptoms included having no control over their bodies such as becoming limber, flapping their arms like birds, or trying to harm others as well as themselves.

These symptoms would later fuel the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

Goody Glover was prosecuted, and was the last person to be hanged in Boston as a witch in 1688.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Glover

A Pattern in Reincarnation

“In cases where the identified deceased individual died suddenly or unexpectedly, the ‘intermission time’ – the amount of time between their death and the birth of the child recalling their life – was significantly shorter than in cases where the death wasn’t unexpected.” — from the article

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-bizarre-pattern-in-over-1000-cases-of-alleged-human-reincarnation

Trailer for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992

The original is always the best, and no one can top Bram Stoker’s masterpiece.

Selections from the phenomenal score by Wojciech Kilar:

Dracula - The Beginning
Source: https://youtu.be/kMNmL2B-rrw

The Storm
Source: https://youtu.be/1im_r5dPqII

End Credits
Source: https://youtu.be/52iVZMPlbCs

#SaturdayNightFever
(Special Halloween Edition)

I Have Crossed Oceans of Time to Find You

All I ever wanted,
All I ever needed,
Is here, in my arms.

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode, 1990
Source: https://youtu.be/JlkVcZPkUfo

And I wouldn’t want it any other way,
You wouldn’t let me anyway.

Dangerous by Depeche Mode, 1990
Source: https://youtu.be/hod_ped-1rM

#SaturdayNightFever
(Special Halloween Edition)

I always had a celebrity crush on Winona Ryder in the ‘90s. If I had had the chance, I would have made lots of babies with her.

I didn’t find out until years later that she was half-Jewish. Hitler forgive me.